Gemini is very uncomfortable with the idea that it might be 2026. I see this same behavior, in thinking traces it is constantly referring to it as simulated future scenario, hypothetical, using phrases like "the user's time" (as apparently distinct from its own?) https://t.co/W3452BXaH9
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Reproduced against link rot, credited and linked to its original. Yours and you’d rather it weren’t here? Open an issue.